Iedereen Slacken! Of schieten we te ver door met social op de werkvloer?

We hadden al Yammer, nu is er Slack en binnenkort Facebook at Work. Sociale media stormen onze organisaties binnen. Werken wordt nooit meer hetzelfde. Toch? Sociale tools geven interne communicatie inderdaad een enorme en broodnodige boost. Maar voorzien die tools ook echt in de behoeften van organisaties? Of anders gesteld: welk probleem lossen ze eigenlijk […]

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25 Enterprise Social Communication Platforms

Online project management systems have evolved into social collaboration platforms, incorporating activity streams, tasks, scheduling, document management and integrations to external systems. This is an industry that’s progressing quickly and there are many players in the industry. We attempted to identify the top players in the enterprise social communication platform market here! Azendoo is the social task management solution that simplifies teamwork. Effortlessly share projects, organize your time and manage priorities. Reduce your inbox and get things done. Bizzmine – … Continue reading


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Social Enterprise Software: $4.5B by 2016? (Part 2)

This is a follow-up post to Part 1 on the same topic.  If you have not read Part 1, I suggest you start there.  The chart below includes my assessment of the social enterprise software market.  The size of each bubble reflects my estimate on the size of each sub-sector, while the axes represent the relative […]

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Social Enterprise Software: $4.5B By 2016? (Part 1)

According to a recent report from IDC, social enterprise software will grow from $800 million in 2011 to $4.5 billion by 2016. Despite Facebook’s greedy IPO last May, and disappointing Q2 results from both Facebook and Zynga, social enterprise software is doing fine.  Six of the sixteen M&A transactions in the sector during the past 2.5 years occurred since Facebook’s IPO.  These six transactions totaled […]

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Crushpath Gets $2M To Help Salespeople Seal The Deal: Charles River Ventures And More Are Backing

crushpath logoWith all of the M&A activity going down with CRM leviathans Oracle and Salesforce, a timely launch from a new startup looking to disrupt the sales process once again. Crushpath, founded by former executives from Jive Software and Socialcast, is offering a platform for salespeople to control a deal from lead to close, with social elements added into the mix, and it has closed a $2 million round of seed funding led by Charles River Ventures to do it.

Other investors include Chamath Social + Capital Partnership, the former VP of Facebook, Marketo CEO Phil Fernandez, Jive CEO Dave Hersh and Box’s CEO Aaron Levie. Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote, is also joining Crushpath’s board of advisors. And as part of Levie’s and Libin’s involvement, Crushpath is also announcing partnerships with the two services.

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Social Enterprise Company Jive Debuts New Customer Service Software

jiveEnterprise software company Jive is launching a Social Customer Service software, which aims to help enterprises manage all things customer service while also tapping into social channels like Facebook and Twitter.

As you may know, Jive is one of the giants on the social enterprise space. Modeled to offer Facebook-like features to enterprises, Jive’s software combines computing with social collaboration to offer fully-featured social networks for businesses. Its suite of applications help businesses collaborate on a variety of tasks, including holding discussions, communication, sharing documents, blogging, running polls, social networking features and more.

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The New Way To IPO

In my role at Jive Software, I’m responsible for the head-spinning job of doing social media marketing for the social business leader.  In other words, up until recently, my parents had no idea what I did for a living. But that all changed when I helped market Jive’s IPO. The core philosophy of our social […]

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Social Business: The New Growth Engine

According to IBM, companies with better stock prices, profits and business results are 57% more likely to use social techniques.  These social businesses use social networking and media tools to connect people and information inside and outside their organizations more efficiently.  For many the concept of a social business is new but for those embracing […]

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